Ward Churchill Mocks 9/11 Victims as Being 'Tweezed into Submission'
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Filmed by Walking Eagle Productions – Hundreds of leftist activists converged from The Mid-Atlantic Radical Book Fair to hear controversial Ethnic Studies Professor Ward Churchill give his speech, "Rules for Thee, but Not for Me: The Politics of 'Academic Misconduct' in a Time of Intellectual Repression." Churchill stunned parts of the audience with an off-the-cuff joke of how the passengers on the planes hijacked by terrorists during 9/11 were laughingly "tweezed into submission" and forced to fly the plane into buildings.
(PRWEB) July 14, 2006 -- On the July 4th weekend at Baltimore’s Mid-Atlantic Radical Book Fair, University of Colorado-Boulder’s Professor of Ethnic Studies, Ward Churchill, spoke to a semi-filled theater of left-wing activists from around the country. Walking Eagle Productions, a documentary film company focusing on free speech, academic freedom, and American Indian issues, filmed the speech in its entirety. It was Churchill’s first public speech given just several days after CU’s Interim Chancellor, Phil DiStefano, announced plans to fire Ward Churchill based on multiple grounds of serious research misconduct (as reported on CU's own Web site). Churchill’s speech for the event was thus titled, "Rules for Thee, but Not for Me: The Politics of 'Academic Misconduct' in a Time of Intellectual Repression."
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The Book Fair hosts issued a statement of solidarity with Churchill on their web site, dismissing all of the findings by CU as part of a grand right-wing conspiracy. "Churchill has given us the best history of state repression after the 1960’s," announced one of the event hosts to the audience. "He’s become the most visible target for the right-wing in their quest to muzzle anyone who speaks out, especially radicals and progressives in the universities here."
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